Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1993

Tornado Warning 10, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 4, 1993Wilson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 1993, 7:50 PM EDT for Wilson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 1993, 7:50 PM EDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1993, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Wilson County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 774 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1204 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 042351
TORRDU
NCC195-050045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
750 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...WILSON COUNTY
 
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO WILSON COUNTY FROM THE
NORTH. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF TORNADOES WITH THESE STORMS IN
SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY. AT 752 PM HAM RADIO OPERATORS REPORTED A
TORNADO ON THE GROUND 6 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF WILSON.
 
TORNADOES AT NIGHT CAN BE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. A ROARING TRAIN-LIKE
NOISE MAY BE YOUR ONLY HINT OF AN APPROACHING TORNADO.  GET TO A
STURDY SHELTER NOW...A SMALL MIDDLE ROOM OR CLOSET...AWAY FROM
WINDOWS AND EXTERIOR WALLS. IF DAMAGE OCCURS...AVOID WALKING AROUND
IN THE DARK.  DOWNED POWER LINES AND FALLEN DEBRIS CAN INJURE YOU.
 
 
 
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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:38 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
736 PM EDT FRI JUN 04 1993

TIME           EVENT
732 EDT        50 TO 60 MPH WIND IN ROCKY MOUNT.  TREES DOWN IN SEVERAL
               LOCATIONS.  |REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO SKYWARN SPOTTER.

RFG

Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:39 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
738 PM EDT FRI JUN 04 1993

TIME           EVENT
737 EDT        DIME SIZED HAIL 4 MILES NORTH OF GOLD ROCK IN NASH COUNTY.
               REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO SKYWARN SPOTTER.

RFG

Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:45 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
743 PM EDT FRI JUN 04 1993

TIME           EVENT
742 EDT        FRNAKLIN COUNTY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS REPORTS TORNADOES
               HAVING OCCURRED IN LAST 15 MINUTES IN THE COMMUNITIES OF
               LOUISBURG...BUNN...AND FRANKLINTON.
RFG

Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:46 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
746 PM EDT FRI JUN 04 1993

TIME           EVENT
650 EDT        GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN ROANOKE RAPIDS OF HALIFAX
               COUNTY.  REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO SKYWARN SPOTTERS.

656 EDT        DIME TO QUARTER-SIZED HAIL IN OXFORD OF GRANVILLE COUNTY
               REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO SKYWARN SPOTTERS.

RFG

Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:49 PM EDT, 1 minute before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
749 PM EDT FRI JUN 04 1993

TIME           EVENT
748 EDT        ESTIMATED GREATER THAN 60 MPH WIND IN SOUTHEAST WAKE
               COUNTY NEAR OLD STAGE ROAD. REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO
               SKYWARN SPOTTERS.

RFG

KLINTON.
RFG

Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:49 PM EDT, 1 minute before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
746 PM EDT FRI JUN 04 1993

TIME           EVENT
650 EDT        GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN ROANOKE RAPIDS OF HALIFAX
               COUNTY.  REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO SKYWARN SPOTTERS.

656 EDT        DIME TO QUARTER-SIZED HAIL IN OXFORD OF GRANVILLE COUNTY
               REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO SKYWARN SPOTTERS.

RFG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Vance, Warren	55 min
Jun 4, 6:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Warren	38 min
Jun 4, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville	46 min
Jun 4, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax, Northampton	64 min
Jun 4, 6:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Person	54 min
Jun 4, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Orange	58 min
Jun 4, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Granville, Vance	58 min
Jun 4, 7:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Halifax	34 min
Jun 4, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Nash, Wake	67 min
Jun 4, 7:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Orange	35 min
Jun 4, 7:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Chatham, Durham	45 min
Jun 4, 7:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Wake	53 min
Jun 4, 7:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Edgecombe	65 min
Jun 4, 7:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Franklin, Nash	42 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.